Malcolm Wallace said that Usenet is pretty bad these days.
Lutz Donnerhacke disagreed.
Living as near the Antarctic as I do, I find that the Internet works
fine, e-mail is just great, but NNTP is effectively dead. I stopped
reading net news (with sadness and reluctance) about eight years ago
when I found that I couldn't rely on getting comp.arch any more. It
was also sad to say goodbye to comp.lang.functional, but that hadn't
been heard from for some time either.
I was very happy to discover Haskell-Café and would be sorry to lose
it, as I would if it went over to NNTP.